Christmas Day-ing

After much anticipation by Max and the rest of us, it was finally Christmas morning and time to open all the wonderful presents from Santa! Max had a hard time understanding that not ALL the presents were from Santa, that he also had grandmas and mimis and grandpas and aunts and uncles and cousins that sent him presents too. And that mom and dad spent an arm and a leg on awesome stuff, too. Not liking how Santa gets all the credit for that.

Anyway... the kids woke up on Christmas morning in their jammies the Elves left them on the front door on Christmas Eve. So adorable in their little jammies opening all of their many presents!







Lia saw the doll in her stroller first and went crazy!! All she could say was "wow wow wow!!!!" and she ran over and dragged it out from behind all the other presents. She LOVED it!! Santa sure knows her, er, his stuff!!







Max got everything he asked for from Santa this year -- a green candy cane, a guy with legs to ride his motorcycles and a video. He got a lot of great toys and some new ties hung on the tree from the Elves.













Max got a remote control car from my dad and the kids thought it was hilarious to run after it and try to catch it. I think Tyler liked this present, too. It was a little hard for Max to control, but he loved running after it!!





Here's a video of the chasing. So funny.


The shopping cart and the tea set for Lia were big hits, too. Not to mention the Wii and all the games that came with it! Tyler and I are having a lot of fun with that one, too (thanks dad!!). Tyler got a jogging stroller from the kiddies and a couple of small things from me. And I got a weekend getaway from Tyler!!! So awesome -- I love getting to hang out with him for a whole weekend without any kids to tend to. We're going to go to Santa Barbara for the weekend in January. We'd been there before but didn't get much time to explore so we're looking forward to just bumming around together!







For breakfast we had eggnog waffles. They were DELICIOUS!! And thanks to Brooke we also had the Snickerdoodle spread to go on top. It was SOOO good!!!



Later that day we went to Legoland with the kids. My parents got us passes as a gift (one for Danielle, too) so we can all go together! We didn't get to stay very long because the kids were kind of on stimulation overload. But we had fun going on some of the rides. I luckily talked Max out of going on one of the pirate rides that swayed and spun all over -- I seriously would have thrown up. It only cost me a few pirate dubloons from the store.

It was a great Christmas for us!! We got awesome stuff, we got to spend the day just the four of us hanging out, playing, watching new movies, eating delicious food. Tyler invented this new way of improvising apple pie a la mode if you find yourself without ice cream. Yes folks, that is an ice cream sandwich.



We hope everyone else had a great Christmas, too!! We're so blessed with such wonderful family and friends and I'm glad we get this time of year to celebrate that! Merry Christmas!!